Lana Swartz
@lanalanalana.bsky.social
New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA https://llaannaa.com/ https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
DAY 37 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Scams everywhere. But what exactly is a scam? What's legit & what's not when the meaning of the term "scam" seems like a moving target? @lanalanalana.bsky.social will provide a corrective with her book ✅ More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/lana-...
Really excited to be spending the year at CASBS with an incredible group of fellows and researchers!
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford@casbsstanford.bsky.social · 2d agoDAY 37 introducing members of the 2026-27 CASBS class Scams everywhere. But what exactly is a scam? What's legit & what's not when the meaning of the term "scam" seems like a moving target? @lanalanalana.bsky.social will provide a corrective with her book ✅ More: casbs.stanford.edu/people/lana-...
In March, we announced the 2026-27 CASBS fellows class. Starting Monday, we will introduce each class member. One per day, every day. It's our highly anticipated annual rollout. You will love it, even if you don't admit it.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford@casbsstanford.bsky.social · 6mo agoANNOUNCING THE 2026-27 CASBS FELLOWS CLASS The class will take residence in early September and is comprised of 36 scholars representing 19 U.S. institutions and 11 international institutions and programs. Read the full announcement and meet the fellows. casbs.stanford.edu/news/casbs-a...
This week on Peoples & Things, I chat with the wonderful @lanalanalana.bsky.social about _New Money: How Payment Became Social Media_ and her other current, highly-creative projects. I love how Lana thinks through things. It's a really fun chat! newbooksnetwork.com/117-lana-swa...
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money - New Books Network
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Oh I'm so excited that this is finally out! It was really a special opportunity to be able to think and talk about how research gets done and books get written. Plus plus FinTech and scams and all my favorite things
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis week on Peoples & Things, I chat with the wonderful @lanalanalana.bsky.social about _New Money: How Payment Became Social Media_ and her other current, highly-creative projects. I love how Lana thinks through things. It's a really fun chat! newbooksnetwork.com/117-lana-swa...
The amazing work on social media scam by @lanalanalana.bsky.social could give us some clues journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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This is a very important and excellent essay from @lanalanalana.bsky.social. Social Media in the Scam Age Social Media + Society, 2026 "Social media is entering its scam age. ...Scams are not just peripheral to the digital economy but central to it." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"Scams are not just peripheral to the digital economy but central to it." Lana Swartz | @lanalanalana.bsky.social 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I'm sympathetic to this essay's argument from the first sentence but it exceeds expectations at every level. Great stuff.
Lana Swartz@lanalanalana.bsky.social · 5mo agonew piece, Social Media in the Scam Age, for the 10th anniversary of @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social thank you to @zizip.bsky.social for inviting me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
new piece, Social Media in the Scam Age, for the 10th anniversary of @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social thank you to @zizip.bsky.social for inviting me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Social Media in the Scam Age - Lana Swartz, 2026
This essay examines scams as a central organizing logic of contemporary social media rather than peripheral criminal activity. Drawing on research in cryptocurr...
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FLiNG report is live! What does financial well-being even mean today? We look at the landscape of finfluencers, online communities, hustle economy, new forms of credit and lending like BNPL, and gambling and high risk investing to try to make sense of it. digitalculturesandeconomies.com/fling.html
FLiNG: Financial Lives in the Networked Generation
How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being. A report by the DiCE Lab at the University of Virginia.
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Today!
Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 5mo agoTomorrow @ 1pm ET! An online discussion launching the new report "Financial Lives in a Networked Generation," exploring what its key findings mean for financial literacy, young adult well-being, and the broader implications for democracy. dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
Tomorrow @ 1pm ET! An online discussion launching the new report "Financial Lives in a Networked Generation," exploring what its key findings mean for financial literacy, young adult well-being, and the broader implications for democracy. dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
Lana Swartz@lanalanalana.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe FLiNG report drops tomorrow! Join us April 1 (1–3pm EDT) for the webinar. Hustles, memecoins, BNPL, finfluencers, gambling! Register to attend or get sent a link to video + report PDF dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
The FLiNG report drops tomorrow! Join us April 1 (1–3pm EDT) for the webinar. Hustles, memecoins, BNPL, finfluencers, gambling! Register to attend or get sent a link to video + report PDF dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
“Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being” Report Launch - DTD Lab
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This is one of the studies I'm most excited about right now. Wish I could watch the launch, but I'll be traveling. But YOU should check it out. Mentioned Lana's study as a great example of taking other humans seriously in this piece. peoples-things.ghost.io/why-do-peopl...
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Why and how do people USE technologies? This question should be at the center of any thinking about human life with technology. The ways in which people use technologies, after all, determines the so...
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Lana Swartz@lanalanalana.bsky.social · 6mo agoApril 1! Join me for the launch of my new report: “Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults’ Financial Well-being” Register here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
Register for this Wednesday! If you can't make it, sign up to receive a link to the video and PDF of the report
Lana Swartz@lanalanalana.bsky.social · 6mo agoApril 1! Join me for the launch of my new report: “Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults’ Financial Well-being” Register here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
April 1! Join me for the launch of my new report: “Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults’ Financial Well-being” Register here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
“Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being” Report Launch - DTD Lab
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After years of worrying about elder financial scams, take a listen at all the crazy financial shenanigans appealing to your kids (or grandkids)! Meme coins, buy-now-pay-later, predictive betting on anything, etc etc etc. Join the webinar April 1 or view later & get the research report.
Lana Swartz@lanalanalana.bsky.social · 6mo agoApril 1! Join me for the launch of my new report: “Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults’ Financial Well-being” Register here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
April 1! Join me for the launch of my new report: “Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults’ Financial Well-being” Register here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...
“Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being” Report Launch - DTD Lab
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Interviewee @lanalanalana.bsky.social is on Bsky!
Been listening to old episodes of @tracyalloway.bsky.social and Joe Weisenthal's Odd Lots. This episode from 2017 about the Diner's Club, where they interview a *media studies* professor, is fascinating: "The stuff of money is the same as the stuff of communications". pocketcasts.com/podcast/odd-...
What Diner's Club Card Reveals About the Nature Of Money
We use money everyday, but it's rare to actually think about what money is or what it represents. And in fact many of the people who are the closest to it -- academics, traders, etc. -- understand it…
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This, via @lanalanalana.bsky.social is basically my current research project (if you add a bit of institutional investment) #BIGSHEDS. The kind of money, financial instruments and endpoint consumption that funds these things = world
Read the primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson: It maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. datasociety.net/library/scam...
ScamGPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud
This collaboration between Lana Swartz, Alice E. Marwick, and Kate Larson maps generative AI's role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play.
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"The more and more that AI becomes infrastructural and becomes part of our everyday lives, the more likely we are to encounter scams and fraud,” says @lanalanalana.bsky.social, co-author of our primer "Scam GPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud." www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
AI vibe scamming is here
AI coding agents make it possible for anyone to build a sophisticated-looking website, including scammers.
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